Tag: babies

Study suggests infant brain responses predict reading speed in secondary school

From the University of Jyväskylä press release: A study conducted at the Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland and Jyväskylä Centre for Interdisciplinary Brain Research (CIBR) has… Read more »

Holding infants – or not – can leave traces on their genes

From the University of British Columbia press release: The amount of close and comforting contact between infants and their caregivers can affect children at the molecular level, an effect detectable… Read more »

Study suggests hearing different accents at home impacts language processing in infants

From the University at Buffalo press release: Infants raised in homes where they hear a single language, but spoken with different accents, recognize words dramatically differently at about 12 months… Read more »

Study suggests infants understand that more desirable rewards require more effort

From the American Association for the Advancement of Science press release: Infants who observe someone putting more effort into attaining a goal attribute more value to it, a new study… Read more »

Study suggests babies understand when words are related

From the Duke University press release: The meaning behind infants’ screeches, squeals and wails may frustrate and confound sleep-deprived new parents. But at an age when babies cannot yet speak… Read more »

Study suggests babies are able to estimate how likely one event is compared to another

From the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences press release: Our whole life we have to make decisions and weigh up probabilities of different events. By learning to… Read more »